Department profile

VolunteerEMS Provider

Mount Vernon Fire Department

Mount Vernon, OR · Grant County. Mount Vernon Fire Department is a Volunteer department, 2 stations and 30 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

30
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Mount Vernon Fire Department pairs above-median national personnel with a headcount above the Oregon average.

Top 47%
national personnel size
+20%
vs. Oregon average
2
stations

National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.

D
PlainFireData Composite Score
21/100
Mount Vernon Fire Department

A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Staffing capacity D
15 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
30 personnel · 2 stations

Mount Vernon Fire Department is a Volunteer department serving Mount Vernon, OR (Grant County), with 2 stations and 30 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #10,465 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #10,465 of 22,440
  • OR personnel rank #105 of 237
  • 6.67 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 6 other listed departments in Grant County

Mount Vernon Fire Department vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

30 Top 47% higher than 53% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 00244 · Mount Vernon Fire Department, OR 30 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-SMALL · STA-FEW · TYPE-VOL · EMS-Y · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-SMALL 30
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-VOL Volunteer
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-MID #10,465
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tanner Williams V…
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Tanner Williams Volunteer Fire Department - Tanner Williams Road, AL (+ 0 personnel)

Volunteer HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OR department.

Department Profile

Type
VOLUNTEER
Location
Mount Vernon, OR
FDID
00244

Staffing vs the Oregon average

How Mount Vernon Fire Department's personnel count compares to the typical department in Oregon. In-state it ranks #105 of 237 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #10,465 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 20% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
42
OR departments
465

County roster weight

Mount Vernon Fire Department carries 37.0% of Grant County HIFLD personnel

Among 7 listed departments (81 personnel), this FDID is the plurality weight, while volunteer departments are 57% of the county count. County / state rollup.

6.67 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 30 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Tanner Williams Volunteer Fire Department - Tanner Williams Road, AL (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

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Nationwide volunteer peers near 30 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every OR department.